Jacques-Henri Lartigue Quotes
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One shouldn’t be only two photographers but thousands.
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Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.
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I think just about everything has been tackled, but it may be that things will be done again, only better and differently.
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The golden rule is work fast. As for framing, composition, focus-this is no time to start asking yourself questions: you just have to trust your intuition and the sharpness of your reflexes.
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I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.
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Photography is a magic thing. A thing that has mysterious odors, a little strange and frightening, something one quickly grows to love.
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I have never taken a photograph without one thought in my head to amuse myself.
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I have never taken a picture for any other reason than that at that moment it made me happy to do so.
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Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but not enough.
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It's marvelous, marvelous! Nothing will ever be as much fun. I'm going to photograph everything, everything!
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What’s so incredibly amusing with photography is that while seemingly an art of the surface, it catches things I haven’t even noticed. And it pains me not to have seen things in all their depth.
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To talk about photos rather than making them seems idiotic to me. It's as though I went on and on about a woman I adored instead of making love to her.
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Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
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I have two pairs of eyes – one to paint and one to take photographs.
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Jacques-Henri Lartigue
- Born: June 13, 1894
- Died: September 12, 1986
- Occupation: Photographer
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